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Re: Encrypted virtual machines

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On 04/26/2012 12:11 PM, Michael Grosser wrote:

Data left on broken disks would be unreadable. --> You don't have to
worry about data destruction before selling/throwing out your disks.
   (That could be realized via encrypting the whole compute-node disk,
but that's not quite what I want.)
Another benefit would be, that you as a cloud user wouldn't have to
worry about the provider accessing your data. (Encrypting every vms disk
for additional security.)

Or am I seeing this too worry-some?
No, I think that's the right level of worry-some - http://www.contextis.co.uk/research/blog/dirtydisks/ 

	-Sean

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